Comments on: PAC: High school football imperiled by vouchers

By: R. Schwartz

R. Schwartz — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:16:43 +0000

The thing I don’t understand about the voucher system is what private school is going to let an under achieving, socio-economic disadvantaged, disciple problem student enroll in their private school with a voucher.
Also I am not sure if anyone noticed or not but the Texas school districts with the really nice stadiums such as Allen, Southlake, Highland Park…, not only have great athletic programs but just as good if not better academic programs.

By: Jeff Cokenour

Jeff Cokenour — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:34:13 +0000

As a former teacher this sort of nonsense saddens me. In our educational race to the bottom, football will be our lifeline? Our governor recently informed us that 40% of our college students will graduate in four years and we have public universities in Texas that graduate less than 20% of their students. Public education in Texas is about interest groups feeding at the rich trough of educational funding. This is not to say that there aren’t a great many fine, dedicated educators in Texas who are bound to a system that has neither their students’ nor their best interests in mind. As the author of this article stated, Florida has a public school voucher program and the last time I checked, football is alive and well in Florida. When the parents of Texas take education seriously and demand that our legislature end the cronyism, fraud, waste and insanity that builds $60 million dollar high school sports stadiums and allows parents to choose the best educational choice for their children, then we will see a drop in illiteracy an increase in graduation rates and a boon to Texas employers. And just maybe, football might still be played on Friday night.

By: Intrepid

Intrepid — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:22:34 +0000

Don’t worry about these scare tactics. High School football will not be leaving Texas because of vouchers. I’m never surprised at the scare tactics some people will use to avoid fair competition.

By: Winchester

Winchester — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:41:12 +0000

education?

By: Keith Cunningham

Keith Cunningham — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:55:15 +0000

This is laughable. Football funding would be very near the last thing touched in most instances. There would be serious consideration to dropping math at many districts before they touched football.

By: Matthew Ladner

Matthew Ladner — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:37:28 +0000

Texas has been adding a population the size of Nebraska every two and a half years, which translates to about 80,000 new public school students a year.

Despite all of this, we are to believe that Texas public education is so fragile that a bit of competition will send the whole thing south and drag football with it?

Either the creators of this video are terribly unsophisticated, or alternatively that they think the people of Texas are incredibly gullible.